It was reported the other day on an inside page of the Pioneer Press, and without nearly enough fanfare, that more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried. That is census data, from census demographers, from the very government that then becomes responsible for many, if not most, of those unmarried women and children.

If that isn't an astonishing statistic, it should be. Why, to any logical person's way of thinking, it explains everything in terms of government at all levels bloating out of control.

Supposing that even angels might fear to tread here, it being liberal dogma that I shouldn't be telling women what to do, or men, either, for that matter, I would submit that marriage would solve virtually every economic issue facing this country.

If we were able to see a pie chart of government spending I’m willing to be this item would be a very small slice of that chart. Government employee payroll and benefits, etc. would be a much larger piece. IMHO

Without ending the anchor baby fraud there is no true immigration reform.
Without ending the welfare for single mom’s there is no welfare reform.
A single illegal alien Mom needs to be deported along with her offspring. The UN can give the baby some ID document. That would put us in line with other countries.

I hate to say it, butr the only way out of this mess would be either a massive collapse and rebuilding, or another option which is scary as hell....

The scary as hell option would be this: We figure out rapid cloning of humans alongside the ability to program an entire human brain based off a “template” programming based off of conservative ideals and robust individualism philosophy. Then we race to outnumber them with these newly minted “undocumented pre-made patriots”. Like I said, it is the scary as hell option.

Most of society’s problems, from the bloated welfare state to urban crime to “anchor baby” illegal immigration, began once the government took it upon itself to reward people for having children that they can’t afford and can’t care for themselves. Once the poor started seeing children as sources of state income, what we have today became inevitable.

"... If we were able to see a pie chart of government spending Im willing to be this item would be a very small slice of that chart. Government employee payroll and benefits, etc. would be a much larger piece. IMHO

You know, the kind of jobs that impoverished single mothers aspire to and that government is only to happy to provide with make-work measures.

the left will always fight the social issues as it’s their holy grail, our side won’t speak about social issues because they’re either cowards or don’t care and have no problem with a communist agenda.

Either way the left know and has fought the social issues for decades and will continue to do so and our ide , well it’s been pathetic, talk radio and others who won’t mention social issues and can’t see once the family is destroyed, once marriage and traditional raising of kids has gone then the parents are the Govt.

Our side every election time talks taxes, spending and debt and yet half the country couldn’t careless about those issues.
We have most on our side on social issues and yet our side won;t mention them

We don’t have to fix the whole problem. Splitting the nation and fixing for a conservative area would work.

I agree, the heartland + Texas would be fine with me, so we would at least have a Sea Port and plenty of energy resources...

The trick would be to convince the libs that they would be better off without all those “flyover hicks” and they would have both the pacific coasts and atlantic coasts. Maybe a small strip of land along the canadian border for them to get from one side to another.

He also got a lot of support by many readers. Joe didn’t go far enough. He could have pointed out the disproportionate amount of crime children of single mothers commit. Then he would have really gotten slammed for pointing out the obvious. But his critics think he’s slamming all single mothers. He’s simply saying the obvious: on average single mothers create a huge financial and societal drag.

This single mother boom was created and fostered by arch-radical, man-hating Nazi feminists many years ago in an effort to destroy the nuclear family.

P.S One of my sisters resembles the man-hating feminist. As a single mother, she had a child who managed to turn out pretty good. My father died recently, and my sister, who hated my father, refused to attend the funeral. Her son and only child lambasted her for not going.

We talk a lot about the welfare moms, but there are also many women who just divorce because they just have no interest in actually being married or devoted to a man in a traditional sense. They want the kid(s), they want the life, and they don’t care about needing the assistance .....it’s all about wanting to live as they wish to live — without anyone telling them what to do. A lot of them simply don’t want to settle down with one man — EVER. They want to party and they want to date and/or sleep around. They’ll tell you ...”I’m just not ready to be married.”

I know a lot of women like this. They CHOOSE this — and yet they have the gall to go out and portray themselves as victims. My own cousin is like this ...she just cannot even offer a reasonable excuse for divorcing her husband ...she just did NOT want to be married.

Taxpaying America needs to wake up and make these grifters pay for their own selfish and irresponsible choices.

You are both EXACTLY right. Which is why I'm glad Joe did not fail to mention men in his article:

"Single mothers in their early 20s instantly become the have-nots, statistically, in income and education. For so many women to have so many children without a husband is a complete abdication of personal responsibility, which leads to a complete shunning of any civic responsibility. We are going broke. And if you think taxing higher-income earners more is the answer, you haven't done the math. The men who are party to these births are, of course, just as irresponsible, just as uncommitted to a civic responsibility to take care of their own."

Huge issue, because conservative don’t want to be supporting unwed mothers, but they also want to abolish Planned Parenthood. They want to forbid abortion, but deny food stamps, WIC and Medicaid once the baby is born. If we don’t talk about it, no reasonable solutions will be found.

Huge issue, because conservative dont want to be supporting unwed mothers, but they also want to abolish Planned Parenthood. They want to forbid abortion, but deny food stamps, WIC and Medicaid once the baby is born. If we dont talk about it, no reasonable solutions will be found.

Liberals do not want to talk about it because this truth destroys their narrative about who and why comprises the majority of welfare. Welfare assistance will drop by 2/3rds if we could eliminate single parent births, poverty would decline the same and crime would be cut in half.

Your argument about conservatives is not fair because you assume the only solutions can be provided by government. There are many charities that conservatives support that promote abstinence which are roundly mocked by liberals and the media. Then there are conservatives that promote charities that provide assistance to young expecting mothers to promote adoption; however, government racist rules and laws that demand minority babies be placed with minority couples severely impede these efforts.

You would also be wrong about the slice of govt. employee payroll and benefits. The big part of the pie is military spending, servicing the national debt, and VA, SS and Medicare costs. I just went to Google and found a site with a fantastic array of(nearly 100) pie charts of govt. spending.

Recently there was a political contest in Washington, DC, in which a lawyer Paul Zukerberg pointed out that 2 1/2 as many youth are arrested for minor marijuana possession charges as graduate from DC schools. His big argument is that then these predominantly male youths are then unable to even get many of the jobs they might be able to fill to pay for their children. We are all paying for stupid marijuana laws and incarcerations throughout the country. How much does the Prison Industrial Complex get for our stupid victimless crime laws??

Lack of a moral center and a belief in God are real culprits here. Single moms, irresponsible fathers are just the canaries in the coal mine. Right now its all about pleasure, do it if it feels good mentality.

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posted on 05/06/2013 4:01:35 PM PDT
by DarkWaters
("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)

True. A God-fearing man would not make use of a woman. He would not want to defile his future wife, or someone else’s. A God-fearing woman would save herself for her future husband. We may not be able to hit this target 100%, but aiming for it would put us in a better state...much better.

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